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O Canada, let's see what you know

For more holiday fun check out David Olive's 142 great things about Canada. (THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO)

1. Discounting its inland bodies of water, Canada's landmass would make the nation rank fourth, rather than second, among nations by size. Canada's inland water accounts fora. 23.8b. 47.2c. 8.2per cent of Canada's total territory.

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2. What percentage of Canada's landmass of 9.9 million sq. km. is arable?a. 5b. 13.2c. 27.9

Match the place of scenic or historic importance with the location.

3. Reversing Falls, a series of rapids creating the optical illusion of water flowing backward.4. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, used for 5,500 years by Blackfoot and other indigenous people to kill buffalo by driving them over a 10-metre cliff.5. Signal Hill, long the site of a fort and in 1901 the spot where Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless transmission, from his transmitter in Cornwall, Eng.6. Agawa Canyon, a 1.2-billion-year-old fault in the Canadian Shield made deeper by the erosion powers of the Agawa River.7. The headwaters of the Fraser River, 10th-longest river in Canada.

a. 184 kilometres by rail north of Sault Ste. Marieb. 18 km northwest of Fort Macleod, Alta.c. On the Saint John River in Saint John, N.B.d. Near Mount Robson in the Rocky Mountains.e. Overlooking St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

8. The largest lake located entirely within Canada, and the seventh-largest in the world, isa. Great Bear Lakeb. Lake Winnipegc. Great Slave Lake

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The Great Lakes water system, taking in Georgian Bay, Lake St. Clair, Lake Nipigon and scores of straits and channels, is the world's largest concentration of fresh water resources on the planet, largely shared with the U.S. Match the waterways with the lakes in the Great Lakes system that each connects.

14. Georgian Bay, home to the vast majority of islands in the Great Lakes system, hosts roughly how many islands?a. 730b. 30,000c. 1,600

15. Canada's southernmost point, Middle Island, an atoll largely covered with cormorant dung, is locateda. At the Canada-U.S. border that divides Lake Ontario.b. About 17 kilometres south of Windsor, Ont.c. Just south of Pelee Island, in Lake Erie.

16. The northernmost inhabited place in the world, perched on the northeastern tip of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, boasting a permanent population of five and taking its name from a British ship that wintered nearby in 1875-76, isa. Resoluteb. Cambridge Bayc. Alertd. Hay River

17. The largest island of any inland body of water in the world isa. Anticosti Islandb. Manitoulin Islandc. Isle Royaled. Granville Island

THE PEOPLE

18. Taking births, deaths and migration into account, the U.S. population increases at a rate of one person per 11 seconds. The Canadian population is increasing by a rate of one person eacha. 22 secondb. 47 secondsc. 81 seconds

19. In 2007, the nation sending Canada the highest percentage of our 236,760 immigrants that year was:a. Jamaicab. Great Britainc. People's Republic of Chinad. India

20. According to the 2001 census, only two Canadian provinces exceed the national average of 18.4 per cent of all Canadians being of foreign birth. They are:a. Alberta and B.C.b. B.C. and Ontarioc. Ontario and Quebec

21. Toronto and Vancouver, tied at 37 per cent of total population that is foreign-born, leave only seven Canadian cities in double-digits of foreign-born residents. The three highest of these area. Calgaryb. Winnipegc. Edmontond. Ottawae. Montreal

22. Which three of these four cities reports the lowest percentage of foreign-born residents, at no higher than 1.4 per cent?a. St. John'sb. Saguenayc. Quebecd. Trois-Rivières

23. According to a recent survey by the Dominion Institute,a. 1 in 10b. 3 in 10c. 4 in 10Canadians cannot identify the nation's first PM or the year of Confederation.

24. The above survey found that onlya. 7b. 5c. 4provinces make Canadian history a mandatory course in high school.

THE BUILDERS

Match the name with his resting place.

25. Samuel de Champlain (c. 1580-1635), founder of Quebec City.26. James Wolfe (1727-1759), commander of victorious British forces on the Plains of Abraham.27. Francois de Laval (1623-1708), first Roman Catholic bishop of Quebec.28. Isaac Brock (1769-1812), commander of British and Indian forces that repulsed a U.S. invasion on the Niagara Frontier.29. John Graves Simcoe (1752-1806), first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada and pioneer urban planner of the future Toronto, laying out Yonge and Dundas Streets and Kingston Road.

a. A memorial column at Queenston Heights, Ont.b. Wolford Chapel on his family's estate near Honiton, Devon, Eng.c. St Alfege Church, Greenwich, Eng.d. Notre-Dame de Québec Basilica-Cathedral, Quebec City.e. Unknown but believed to be near the Notre-Dame de Quebec Basilica-Cathedral, on the site of a chapel built in his honour but destroyed by fire in 1640.

30. True or false: The night before the confrontation with French forces on the Plains of Abraham, Gen. Wolfe told his officers: "I would rather have written that poem, gentlemen, than take Quebec tomorrow," referring to Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written In A Country Church-Yard."

31. John A. Macdonald's retirement plans, according to his most renowned biographer, Donald Creighton, were toa. return to Kingston to teach lawb. take up permanent residence in Englandc. write a biography of his unfairly maligned late friend Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

32. McGee, the only prominent Canadian statesman to be assassinated, was the victim of aa. duel with a political adversaryb. lover's quarrelc. Fenian extremist, an Irish nationalist.

33. If Macdonald sponsored the CPR, it wasa. Sir Charles Tupperb. Sir Wilfrid Laurierc. Sir Robert Bordenwho sponsored most of the failing CPR rivals that were eventually merged by Ottawa to create the Canadian National Railways (CNR).

Match the statement with the statesman.

34. "This extraordinary undertaking is so advanced on the road to liberty, so advanced in the way of social justice and of prosperity, that to abandon it now would be to sin against the spirit, to sin against humanity."35. "Who will oppose — who are now opposed to the union? Only those who have a vested interest in their own insignificance."36. "Whatever you do adhere to the Union — we are a great country, and shall become one of the greatest in the universe if we preserve it; we shall sink into insignificance and adversity if we suffer it to be broken."

a. Thomas D'Arcy McGeeb. Pierre Trudeauc. John A. Macdonald

37. The gay and lesbian pride festivities in Toronto now are the largesta. in Canadab. North Americac. the world

38. Beverley McLachlin this year celebrates her 10th year asa. First woman chancellor of Dalhousie Universityb. First woman chief justice of the Canadian Supreme Courtc. First woman CEO of Vancouver General Hospital

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS

Where in Canada would you find:

39. The world's busiest airport for float planes40. The 9 o'clock gun41. A city-defining park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted42. Amsterdam Bridge, linking two piers on an urban waterfront43. The best view of the Gatineau44. Arguably the best urban canoe ride in Canada45. A provincial legislature modelled on the Louvre46. A former city hall modelled on a courthouse in Pittsburgh

47. Which province has a province-wide trail celebrating its status as birthplace of Confederation?

48. True or false: Two years ago, a CBC panel passed over ice hockey, Prairie grain elevators, whale watching, the St. Lawrence River, Banff National Park, Percé Rock, the Madawaska and Saguenay rivers, the Laurentians, Atlantic Canada outports, the CN Tower, Mount Logan, the BlackBerry and This Hour Has 22 Minutes in selecting the "Seven Wonders of Canada."

49. Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor, one of the above panellists, was describing which of the Seven Wonders that made the cut in writing recently: "What other vehicle on Earth can you use as a hat when it rains — or a shelter when it snows, or even a table when it's time to eat?"

75. True or false: Also recently, EIU parent The Economist titled a report, "British Columbia or Colombia?" saying "Organized crime brings fear to" the streets of the city its EIU declares the world's most liveable.

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